lifeaftr | January Intro: I Know the Winter's Getting Colder

INTRO LOG: JANUARY

Who: Everyone!
What: New souls arrive to the archipelago of LifeAftr
When: January 5th and onward
Where: Chol and surrounding waters
Warnings: Mark as needed!

The Overview: New Lands
New arrivals will not be waking in the typical hub of activity; instead, they will find themselves coming to on the small island of Chol. While the island's fringes are little more than an unforgiving spread of craggy, canyon-like rock and coastal cliffs, the island dips down to form a fertile divot of edenic woodland in its center. The people living there will even be helpful and polite to you, should you inquire after them.

All new arrivals will additionally awake with knapsacks, their names stitched to the front. The contents of said knapsacks can all be found in your acceptance notices!

Icebreaker: This is the Winter of Our Youth
Unless you're someone with a fondness for the cold, you'll undoubtedly be waking with more than a slight chill in your bones. The appearance of the island of Chol has signaled a coming event of great import in LifeAftr, and unfortunately, the signs of that event's approach have already been set in motion. The temperature has begun to drop as the sun's rays begin to die, faster and faster, leading to an impressive cold snap in the ocean waters - particularly those surrounding Chol.

It is for that reason that you won't be waking on Chol, per se. Instead, you'll be waking on a thick crust of ice that's mantled itself over the ocean waters, freezing solid enough to bear your weight...for the most part.

The ice won't hold forever; it isn't meant to. If you happen to be particularly vivacious in your waking, or especially active in general, thick cracks will start to spiderweb out from underneath those impacts with low, warning chunks and wrenches of fracturing ice. Better hurry to land soon, unless you care to take a little dip into those freezing cold ocean waters.

Mainland: When We Pick Over the Past
Should you make it to the land of Chol, braving the iced-over waters surrounding its craggy shores, you'll encounter something at least as startling - the people who have elected to set up a rudimentary encampment upon its lands. While a bit on the scalier side, the Jormun are nonetheless allied to you land-dwellers, and will welcome you to the island.

Most will be preoccupied with preparations for an approaching siege, but many will comment idly that the cold is a sign of the coming battle. Some may point you to their leader, known to most as Munin, but others will venture hospitality based on the actions of those land-dwellers that came before you, who were successful in allying themselves to this sea-dwelling people.

Those who might have braved the cold a little too fiercely will quickly be offered some rather rough blankets - perhaps more on par with burlap sacks in terms of texture - as well as a hot brew that the Jormun call brrkshavak. Heated to a boil just prior to being served, the drink will be more than adequate in warming your weary bones, though it bodes mentioning that it is both scalding hot and made with a fleshy kind of undersea herb that is akin to crushed chili pepper in taste.

It'll warm you up, all right.

As a final note to those who participated in the Test Drive Meme, bear in mind that those threads, if all parties involved would like, can be game canon in the form of dream-like memories involving a place very much like this one, though the layout is considerably different.

Feeling a tad adrift? Make sure to check the Locations Page, which has details regarding the starting areas and a handy map for those who feel better with a bird's eye view!

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[ Magnus will doubt have even more questions, considering the nature of the person he's about to meet. The Knight hops from rock to rock with unknown purpose - possibly just for fun, it's hard to tell - but stops when they see someone trudging through the wilderness.

They strike the rock they're on with their sword - once, twice - to catch the person's attention - it rings out - and then raise a nubby hand in greeting. No reason not to be rude! This person looks new, and lost. ]

[ Magnus stops and looks towards the sound, for a moment just pausing to look at the stranger.

But, agreed, there's no need to be rude! He raises a hand in return.]

Hail and well met, masked friend!

[Magnus, jesus, you pick the weirdest times to go full fantasy-ass hero.]

Can you, huh, tell where we are?

[ Where they are? Well, they're on a strange island, brought here to help (?), or to tell stories. Something to that effect.

Not that the knight has...any real way to communicate this at all...that doesn't take up a lot of time. Being mute is more of a trouble than they were expecting, but they've never had so many people who wanted to really talk to them before.

However, they do know how to write, and they know the island's name. So they hop down (now that they're not on a rock, it's revealed they're very small) and scratch out the name of the island in the snow.

chol ]

[ Oh. Oh! Oh my god, look at how tiny they are. What even are they?

Since they don't seem eager for a fight - and, you know, Magnus doesn't really think that it'd be much of a contest here - he approaches this new small friend, so that he can read the word in the sand. ]

Ccchhh....Coal? Choal...Chol?

[ He can read, sure. ]

That the name of this place?

[ They nod.

camp, and they shift snow around to make an arrow pointing further inland to accompany this declaration.

After a moment's contemplation, they draw a fairly decent if simplistic picture of what looks like a human face with...fins? Spikes? Another arrow, drawn from 'camp' to this simple rendition.

friendly : )

The tall, blue-skinned being had responded favourably to the image of a smiley face, so they figured they'd better try it out with others. ]

[Magnus scratches at his chin as this little guy draws on the snow, trying to take in the message as well as he can. ]

A...fish person? In a camp?

[ Close enough. ]

So it's...safe to go up there?

[ Well, it's literally the only lead he has, so it's not like he has much of a choice? Magnus looks in the direction the around points, thinking, partly trying to see if he can hear or see anything from where they're standing.

But, hey, dude's true to his ideals, so he's going to fucking Rush In. Plus, potential fish people? Hell yeah!

But, before he takes a step, he stops, looking down at the small friend again.]

You wanna come with me?

[ Can he have a tiny buddy? He can ride on his shoulder! Wouldn't that be adorable. ]

January Intro: I Know the Winter's Getting Colder

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